The US government has stopped paying its annual contribution to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), citing dissatisfaction with the agency's handling of doping cases, particularly those involving Chinese swimmers. This decision, amounting to over $3.6 million, represents six percent of WADA's budget and means the US is ineligible to participate in the agency's key decision-making panels. The funding dispute has been ongoing for at least six years, stemming from concerns about WADA's handling of the Russian doping scandal.
The U.S. government did not pay the more than $3.6 million US due to the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2024, making good on a long-running threat anchored in unhappiness with the global watchdog's handling of cases involving Chinese swimmers and others. World Anti-Doping Agency president Witold Banka and WADA 's director general Olivier Niggli attend a press conference in Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics on July 25, 2024. The U.S. government did not pay the more than $3.
The U.S. contribution is double that of Canada, the home country for WADA that puts in the second most money among the more than 180 countries that contribute. In between, tensions have grown between WADA, the U.S. and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which runs the drug-fighting program in the United States.
Just as some of that rhetoric died down comes the news that the U.S. decided to stiff WADA on its 2024 obligation.
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